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When former Gov. Bob McDonnell stands before U.S. District Judge James Spencer on Tuesday for sentencing, the big question will be: Is the core of political corruption taking money when in office, or doing something in return? For the prosecutors who convinced a jury to find McDonnell guilty on 11 counts of violating federal political ethics law, the taking is the problem. They argue he should go to prison for more than 10 years. To McDonnell, whose lawyers are asking for a sentence of 6,000 hours of community service — the equivalent of three years of 40 hour weeks — the issue is that he didn't do anything out of the ordinary in Virginia when accepting gifts and loans...

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